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Nutrition
In South LA, 'food deserts' impact health of HIV/AIDS patients

For people living with HIV or AIDS, nutrition is a key component of any treatment plan. But living in neighborhoods where healthy food options are few and far between — with an outsize presence of fast-food outlets — eating a proper diet can prove difficult.

Published
08 May 2012
From
Los Angeles Wave Newspapers
Money, benefits and housing
As sickness benefit cuts take effect, thousands face hard times

Fears those too ill to work will be unable to meet basic living costs as government limits contributory allowance to 365 days.

Published
01 May 2012
From
The Guardian
Money, benefits and housing
Unmet basic subsistence needs is the most important factor affecting health of poor HIV-positive men

An inability to provide for the most basic needs of life is the biggest predictor of poor physical and mental health for homeless and marginally housed HIV-positive

Published
01 May 2012
By
Michael Carter
Money, benefits and housing
Progress with HIV undercut by lack of food or shelter

Unmet subsistence needs - not having a place to sleep and not having access to regular meals, clean clothes or good hygiene - had the largest single effect on the physical and mental health of patients in a UCSF study of 288 homeless HIV-positive men.

Published
27 April 2012
From
San Francisco Chronicle
Money, benefits and housing
UK: HIV specialist social worker posts maintained in face of cuts

Specialist social worker posts have been largely maintained in the face of significant cuts in social care funding for people with HIV/Aids, a survey has found. But the National Aids Trust report raised concerns about a lack of training provided for generic social care staff in supporting the client group in councils that did not employ specialist social workers.

Published
23 April 2012
From
Community Care
Money, benefits and housing
UK: NAT launches new report on HIV social care spending and services

Encouragingly, even in a time of severe cuts in local authority funding, the report shows that many local councils still recognise the real social care needs of people with HIV, and aim to meet them.  This is largely due to the retaining of an indicative allocation for HIV social care within local council funding from central Government as welll as the powerful case being made for HIV social care at the local level by people with HIV and organisations which support them. 

Published
20 April 2012
From
NAT press release
Money, benefits and housing
Rest assured – life insurance for people with HIV

Relatively few people with HIV in the UK take out life insurance, but is that actually because it isn’t available to them? Gus Cairns investigates.

Published
01 April 2012
From
HIV treatment update
Retention and linkage to care
Guidelines developed to help boost rates of entry into HIV care, retention in care and levels of adherence

New guidelines have been developed to improve the entry of patients into specialist HIV care and assist in their retention in this care. Published in the Annals

Published
20 March 2012
By
Michael Carter
Experiences of stigma
Rwanda: 'Women With HIV Denied Right to Inherit'

Many women living with HIV are being denied their rights to inherit family property by their relatives.

Published
17 March 2012
From
AllAfrica
Money, benefits and housing
THT relaunches HIV hardship fund with help from Elton John AIDS Foundation

HIV and sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust has relaunched a national Hardship Fund for people living with HIV in severe financial need.

Published
21 February 2012
From
Pink News
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